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R.I.P. Symbian – 1998 – 2013

Nokia finally announced the death of Symbian today… my last smartphone was a Symbian S60 based Nokia E71.  I was very fond of it, and still use it for development today.  A few things that surprised me from today’s articles (such as this one):

1. Symbian wasn’t already dead
2. S40 is not a Symbian-based OS (Symbian S60 caused this confusion for me).
3. The last Symbian device released (808 PureView) had a whopping 41 megapixel camera
4. Nokia shipped 80 million (!!) S40-based devices in Q4 of 2012
5. Nokia shipped 9.3 million Asha S40 devices in Q4 of 2012, which is twice as many Lumia devices shipped in the same quarter (4.4 million).

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